Re: [Python-Dev] sprints and pushes

2011-03-25 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull step...@xemacs.org wrote: Eg, much as I normally respect Barry's intuitions, his proposal (to remove costly tests, without reference to the possibility of missing something important) is IMHO absolutely the wrong criterion.  I don't really

Re: [Python-Dev] Proposal for Python 3.3: dependence injection

2011-03-25 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Simon Cross hodgestar+python...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:25 AM, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: As an example of the last point, perhaps rather than modifying all the *clients* of the socket module, it may make more sense to have tools

Re: [Python-Dev] Proposal for Python 3.3: dependence injection

2011-03-25 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Glenn Linderman v+pyt...@g.nevcal.com wrote: On 3/24/2011 4:25 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: As an example of the last point, perhaps rather than modifying all the *clients* of the socket module, it may make more sense to have tools in the socket module itself to

Re: [Python-Dev] CRLF line endings

2011-03-25 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Stefan Krah ste...@bytereef.org wrote: Hi, A commit hook prevented pushing changes to the cdecimal repository: pushing to ssh://h...@hg.python.org/features/cdecimal searching for changes 8 changesets found remote: adding changesets remote: adding manifests

Re: [Python-Dev] Unload a module written in C

2011-03-25 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Victor Stinner victor.stin...@haypocalc.com wrote: Le vendredi 25 mars 2011 à 07:59 +0100, Martin v. Löwis a écrit : Is there a bug somewhere, or do I misunderstood something important? Module unloading is simply not implemented, and would be very difficult

Re: [Python-Dev] Unload a module written in C

2011-03-25 Thread Victor Stinner
Le vendredi 25 mars 2011 à 21:14 +1000, Nick Coghlan a écrit : On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Victor Stinner victor.stin...@haypocalc.com wrote: Le vendredi 25 mars 2011 à 07:59 +0100, Martin v. Löwis a écrit : Is there a bug somewhere, or do I misunderstood something important?

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: Remove test_importable(). Couldn't see how to make this reliable across all

2011-03-25 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 3:51 AM, raymond.hettinger python-check...@python.org wrote: http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/5adddc6be3c1 changeset:   68902:5adddc6be3c1 user:        Raymond Hettinger pyt...@rcn.com date:        Thu Mar 24 10:51:06 2011 -0700 summary:  Remove test_importable().  

Re: [Python-Dev] Unload a module written in C

2011-03-25 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Victor Stinner victor.stin...@haypocalc.com wrote: And registering your cleanup function with atexit() isn't enough? Or does that remove the handler too early? atexit() is too late: when Python is embeded, Py_Finalize() may be called a long time before the

[Python-Dev] Python Core Mentorship program

2011-03-25 Thread Jesse Noller
Hello everyone: I wanted to take a moment to outline another idea which came out of PyCon 2011 this year from numerous sources - a Python Core Mentorship Program predicated on the idea that Python-Core, and Python as a whole would be served by further lowering the barrier to entry of

Re: [Python-Dev] CRLF line endings

2011-03-25 Thread Stefan Krah
Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: However, dnloop.patch is correct and must have CRLF line endings. How can I disable the commit hook? Don't disable the commit hook, update .hgeol to flag that file as requiring CRLF line endings. Thanks, that works well. Stefan Krah

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Core Mentorship program

2011-03-25 Thread Jesse Noller
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 9:04 AM, exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: On 12:03 pm, jnol...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone: The new list will also have a closed, members-only archive. After consulting with other core developers, we believe it's easier to ask questions when you don't have to

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Core Mentorship program

2011-03-25 Thread skip
Boggle. Jesse I assume that means your in, or you hate that idea? Or that he just really likes to play Boggle. :-) S ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe:

Re: [Python-Dev] CRLF line endings

2011-03-25 Thread R. David Murray
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:12:19 +1000, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: Don't disable the commit hook, update .hgeol to flag that file as requiring CRLF line endings. Note however that we discovered that the server side hook looks at the .hgeol file in the *server's checkout*. I don't know

Re: [Python-Dev] CRLF line endings

2011-03-25 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 11:12 PM, R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com wrote: On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:12:19 +1000, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: Don't disable the commit hook, update .hgeol to flag that file as requiring CRLF line endings. Note however that we discovered that the

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Core Mentorship program

2011-03-25 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 11:06 PM, Jesse Noller jnol...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 9:04 AM,  exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: On 12:03 pm, jnol...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone: The new list will also have a closed, members-only archive. After consulting with other core

Re: [Python-Dev] Proposal for Python 3.3: dependence injection

2011-03-25 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:10:08 +1000 Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Glenn Linderman v+pyt...@g.nevcal.com wrote: On 3/24/2011 4:25 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: As an example of the last point, perhaps rather than modifying all the *clients* of the

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Core Mentorship program

2011-03-25 Thread Jesse Noller
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 11:06 PM, Jesse Noller jnol...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 9:04 AM,  exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: On 12:03 pm, jnol...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone: The new list will also

Re: [Python-Dev] CRLF line endings

2011-03-25 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:12:53 -0400 R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com wrote: On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:12:19 +1000, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: Don't disable the commit hook, update .hgeol to flag that file as requiring CRLF line endings. Note however that we discovered that the

Re: [Python-Dev] sprints and pushes

2011-03-25 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/24/2011 10:51 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: If you are going to argue for running some tests but not others after making changes, shouldn't there be a notion of relevance involved? IMO the tests for modules with dependents should include

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Core Mentorship program

2011-03-25 Thread Jesse Noller
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Jesse Noller jnol...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone: I wanted to take a moment to outline another idea which came out of PyCon 2011 this year from numerous sources - a Python Core Mentorship Program predicated on the idea that Python-Core, and Python as a

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Core Mentorship program

2011-03-25 Thread exarkun
On 12:03 pm, jnol...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone: The new list will also have a closed, members-only archive. After consulting with other core developers, we believe it's easier to ask questions when you don't have to worry about Google picking up your words from a public archive.

Re: [Python-Dev] Proposal for Python 3.3: dependence injection

2011-03-25 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 11:29 PM, Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net wrote: My model for the suggestion is the context objects in the decimal module. They offer a constrained way to affect the way the entire decimal module goes about its business, and through judicious use of thread local

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Core Mentorship program

2011-03-25 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 2:12 PM, s...@pobox.com wrote:     Boggle.    Jesse I assume that means your in, or you hate that idea? Or that he just really likes to play Boggle. :-) Or that he's confused ? https://secure.wikimedia.org/wiktionary/en/wiki/mindboggling S

[Python-Dev] Buildbots and feature branches

2011-03-25 Thread Stefan Krah
Hi, I'm unable to figure out how to trigger a build of a feature branch, see: http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/all/builders/x86%20Ubuntu%20Shared%203.x/builds/3424 I saw this: 'Branch to build' is relative to http://svn.python.org/projects/python. But if I leave out the branch, nothing

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Core Mentorship program

2011-03-25 Thread Éric Araujo
Hi, Sounds like an excellent initiative! Kudos to the PSF and the individuals involved. I don’t have time to take part right now, but I wish a good start to the program. Cheers ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] Buildbots and feature branches

2011-03-25 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:30:37 +0100 Stefan Krah ste...@bytereef.org wrote: Hi, I'm unable to figure out how to trigger a build of a feature branch, see: You cannot do that yet. Regards Antoine. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] Buildbots and feature branches

2011-03-25 Thread Stefan Krah
Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net wrote: I'm unable to figure out how to trigger a build of a feature branch, see: You cannot do that yet. Ok, thanks. Incidentally, I noticed that push messages with an issue number get redirected to bugs.python.org. See the recent commit for #2650 here:

Re: [Python-Dev] Buildbots and feature branches

2011-03-25 Thread Éric Araujo
Le 25/03/2011 15:58, Stefan Krah a écrit : Incidentally, I noticed that push messages with an issue number get redirected to bugs.python.org. See the recent commit for #2650 here: http://hg.python.org/cpython/ Is this really what everyone wants? Having issues linked from commit

Re: [Python-Dev] Buildbots and feature branches

2011-03-25 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:11:16 +0100 Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org wrote: Le 25/03/2011 15:58, Stefan Krah a écrit : Incidentally, I noticed that push messages with an issue number get redirected to bugs.python.org. See the recent commit for #2650 here: http://hg.python.org/cpython/

[Python-Dev] A myriad of cross-compile patches (Was: Re: Embedded Python startup is slow)

2011-03-25 Thread Éric Araujo
Le 25/03/2011 11:48, Victor Stinner a écrit : I proposed to integrate Buildroot patches which are 12 patches to improve cross-compilation and remove/disable some Python features: http://bugs.python.org/issue11365 Roumen Petrov wrote All is duplicate on already posted patches . It is not

Re: [Python-Dev] Dict access with double-dot (syntactic sugar)

2011-03-25 Thread Jameson Quinn
I realized that python already has a way to access the string-based members of a dict without using quotes: def expect_a_chair(chair, **kw): print Thanks. That chair is %s. % chair if kw: for key, val in kw.iteritems(): print I wasn't expecting the (%s) %s! % (val, key) d =

Re: [Python-Dev] sprints and pushes

2011-03-25 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Mar 25, 2011, at 09:51 AM, Tres Seaver wrote: That was precisely my proposal: when trying to check in changes to a stdlib module, we required that developers ensure that the module's tests, *and* those of its dependents, pass. We would need to add new testing infrastructure to support this

Re: [Python-Dev] A myriad of cross-compile patches (Was: Re: Embedded Python startup is slow)

2011-03-25 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:46:51 +0100 Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org wrote: The most experienced core dev about those matters is Martin von Löwis; other core devs who make reviews are Roumen Petrov and Gregory P. Smith (who’s recently been removing his name from nosy fields). I don't think

Re: [Python-Dev] Dict access with double-dot (syntactic sugar)

2011-03-25 Thread Éric Araujo
Again, please keep this thread on python-ideas. If people there agree that this is a very common use case and find a syntax that is not ugly, it will be time to come back to python-dev. Thanks. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] A myriad of cross-compile patches (Was: Re: Embedded Python startup is slow)

2011-03-25 Thread Éric Araujo
I don't think Roumen is a core developer (is he? I am not trying to offend anyone). My mistake. Roumen is a user who’s been commenting on a number of the patches. Regards ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] I plan to push faulthandler into Python 3.3 in one week

2011-03-25 Thread Victor Stinner
Le jeudi 24 mars 2011 à 00:49 +0100, Victor Stinner a écrit : If nobody complains, I plan to push my faulthandler module into Python 3.3 in one week. It's a module to display the Python backtrace on a segfault, on a user signal or after a timeout. I created a feature repo to prepare the work,

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: Revert the Lib/test/test_bigmem.py changes from commit 17891566a478 (and a

2011-03-25 Thread Éric Araujo
Hi, changeset: 68921:11dc3f270594 user:Thomas Wouters tho...@python.org date:Fri Mar 25 11:42:37 2011 +0100 summary: Revert the Lib/test/test_bigmem.py changes from commit 17891566a478 (and a few other assertEqual tests that snuck in), and expand the docstrings and

[Python-Dev] Summary of Python tracker Issues

2011-03-25 Thread Python tracker
ACTIVITY SUMMARY (2011-03-18 - 2011-03-25) Python tracker at http://bugs.python.org/ To view or respond to any of the issues listed below, click on the issue. Do NOT respond to this message. Issues counts and deltas: open2735 (+12) closed 20718 (+63) total 23453 (+75) Open issues

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: Revert the Lib/test/test_bigmem.py changes from commit 17891566a478 (and a

2011-03-25 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:44:26 +0100 Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org wrote: Hi, changeset: 68921:11dc3f270594 user:Thomas Wouters tho...@python.org date:Fri Mar 25 11:42:37 2011 +0100 summary: Revert the Lib/test/test_bigmem.py changes from commit 17891566a478 (and a

Re: [Python-Dev] Unload a module written in C

2011-03-25 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Am 25.03.2011 11:14, schrieb Victor Stinner: Le vendredi 25 mars 2011 à 07:59 +0100, Martin v. Löwis a écrit : Is there a bug somewhere, or do I misunderstood something important? Module unloading is simply not implemented, and would be very difficult to implement. My problem is that if

Re: [Python-Dev] Python-Dev Digest, Vol 92, Issue 156

2011-03-25 Thread Nick Efford
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011, python-dev-requ...@python.org wrote: Send Python-Dev mailing list submissions to python-dev@python.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev or, via email, send a message with subject or

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Core Mentorship program

2011-03-25 Thread Reliable Domains
On 3/25/2011 6:12 AM, s...@pobox.com wrote: Boggle. Jesse I assume that means your in, or you hate that idea? Or that he just really likes to play Boggle.:-) I really like to play Boggle. It is even better with our local rules... 5x5 grid, 5 letter minimum word size, and 4

Re: [Python-Dev] 2to3 status, repositories and HACKING guide

2011-03-25 Thread Benjamin Peterson
The main cpython repo. 2011/3/25 anatoly techtonik techto...@gmail.com: Hi, Benjamin, Is your repository for 2to3 is still actual? http://svn.python.org/view/sandbox/trunk/2to3/ Which should I use to start hacking on 2to3? -- anatoly t. On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 9:01 AM, anatoly

Re: [Python-Dev] Unload a module written in C

2011-03-25 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Am 25.03.2011 10:24, schrieb Stefan Behnel: Martin v. Löwis, 25.03.2011 07:59: Is there a bug somewhere, or do I misunderstood something important? Module unloading is simply not implemented, and would be very difficult to implement. Are you saying that because objects instantiated from a

Re: [Python-Dev] Let's get PEP 380 into Python 3.3

2011-03-25 Thread rndblnch
rndblnch rndblnch at gmail.com writes: Now that I have figured out how to use patch queues with bitbucket, I will maintain greg's pep380 implementation as a patch on top of cpython here: https://bitbucket.org/rndblnch/cpython-pep380/ snip The patch is now visible here:

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Core Mentorship program

2011-03-25 Thread Ben Finney
exar...@twistedmatrix.com writes: On 12:03 pm, jnol...@gmail.com wrote: The new list will also have a closed, members-only archive. After consulting with other core developers, we believe it's easier to ask questions when you don't have to worry about Google picking up your words from a

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Core Mentorship program

2011-03-25 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 07:57:41 +1100 Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: exar...@twistedmatrix.com writes: On 12:03 pm, jnol...@gmail.com wrote: The new list will also have a closed, members-only archive. After consulting with other core developers, we believe it's easier to ask

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Core Mentorship program

2011-03-25 Thread Jacob Kaplan-Moss
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: If you don't want a specific party snooping the site, just block that specific party. Why make a walled garden that *nobody* outside can look into? That undermines the free exchange of information. I think the point

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Core Mentorship program

2011-03-25 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: If you don't want a specific party snooping the site, just block that specific party. Why make a walled garden that *nobody* outside can look into? That undermines the free exchange of information. Surely a forum

Re: [Python-Dev] Submitting changes through Mercurial

2011-03-25 Thread Éric Araujo
Le 22/03/2011 22:47, Nick Coghlan a écrit : On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org wrote: You have to use one public repo per bug, as roundup will only use the default branch to compute the diff. Maybe adding support for named branches so that you can have one repo

Re: [Python-Dev] Submitting changes through Mercurial

2011-03-25 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Work has been started on that, thanks! Roundup should soon support the workflow described in the devguide for feature work, which will be awesome. Make sure to submit issues to the meta tracker, please. I’ve tried to use a clone with a named branch for http://bugs.python.org/issue5845 and

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Core Mentorship program

2011-03-25 Thread Jesse Noller
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Guido van Rossum gu...@python.org wrote: On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: If you don't want a specific party snooping the site, just block that specific party. Why make a walled garden that *nobody* outside can look

Re: [Python-Dev] Submitting changes through Mercurial

2011-03-25 Thread Éric Araujo
Make sure to submit issues to the meta tracker, please. Right, I’ll do that. Since you have questions in this message, for now I’ll continue here. - The first patch was empty (note that the repo was not up to date). This I don't understand. What repo was not up to date? I mean that my

Re: [Python-Dev] hg diff

2011-03-25 Thread Éric Araujo
Le 09/03/2011 03:41, Guido van Rossum a écrit : On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org wrote: I’m of the opinion that hg diffs should always use the extended git format, given their usefulness. A tool working with hg diffs that does not support this format is broken

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Core Mentorship program

2011-03-25 Thread Ben Finney
Guido van Rossum gu...@python.org writes: On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Surely a forum specifically for mentorship will be more useful if outsiders can be directed to existing discussions, without needing to join the private club. This

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Core Mentorship program

2011-03-25 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: I propose to give it a rest. If you want to know what's going on there, just subscribe, nobody will stop you (and if they did there are plenty of public forums to complain). I thought that's exactly what I was

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Core Mentorship program

2011-03-25 Thread Jesse Noller
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Guido van Rossum gu...@python.org writes: On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Surely a forum specifically for mentorship will be more useful if outsiders can be directed

Re: [Python-Dev] Submitting changes through Mercurial

2011-03-25 Thread Martin v. Löwis
I mean that my linked repo didn’t have all changesets from hg.python.org/cpython. I don’t think it should matter, but I don’t know why the diff was empty, so I thought this information might help. [...] See http://bugs.python.org/file21398/c43e264256e4.diff : this corresponds to a merge I

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Core Mentorship program

2011-03-25 Thread Ben Finney
Jesse Noller jnol...@gmail.com writes: In principle I agree with you […] Thanks (truly!) for considering the feedback. The only further comment I need to make is: I want to error on the side of the closed list archives for now. In several months, we all might realize it was a monumental

Re: [Python-Dev] Submitting changes through Mercurial

2011-03-25 Thread Éric Araujo
I see what happened: my revspec couldn't cope with the fact that you branched fix5845 off rlcompleter-config. Ah, I hadn’t thought of that. (I had to branch because of the former issue with the hyphen; this is a pathological case.) In any case, I have now changed the revspec to use Baptiste's

Re: [Python-Dev] hg diff

2011-03-25 Thread Éric Araujo
On 09.03.2011 06:44, Martin v. Löwis wrote: IMO, it's hg diff --git that's broken, as it doesn't include the base revision (other formats, such as hg export, do). I asked about it on #mercurial. It turns out that not including the base changeset id in the diff is an oversight, not a choice;

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Core Mentorship program

2011-03-25 Thread Eric Snow
I see your point, but doesn't python-list already fill the role you indicate may be diminished? Seems like the new list is meant to fill a different need. Perhaps one concern would be over-use of the mentoring list when someone would be fine with python-list. I just don't see people turning

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Core Mentorship program

2011-03-25 Thread Ben Finney
Eric Snow ericsnowcurren...@gmail.com writes: I see your point, but doesn't python-list already fill the role you indicate may be diminished? The audience of the proposed forum (AFAICT) is people who want to learn enough to contribute to the Python core. So, no, they're different roles. --

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Core Mentorship program

2011-03-25 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:14:02 -0400, Jesse Noller writes: Ben, In principle I agree with you - I would like open archives for the specific reasons you cite, but I value the ability for people who may not be comfortable with coming out and openly discussing things on a list if they

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 3.3 release schedule posted

2011-03-25 Thread Laurens Van Houtven
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Thomas Wouters tho...@python.org wrote: It ended up that Jim Fulton is actually writing the PEP (with input from Twisted people and others.) -- Thomas Wouters tho...@python.org Hi! I'm a .signature virus! copy me into your .signature file to help me

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Core Mentorship program

2011-03-25 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Sat, 26 Mar 2011 10:46:27 +1100, Ben Finney writes: The audience of the proposed forum (AFAICT) is people who want to learn enough to contribute to the Python core. So, no, they're different roles. The other side of the proposed forum is people who want to teach such people.

Re: [Python-Dev] Mentorship list

2011-03-25 Thread Tommy
I was kinda hoping that a private list would have much less noise, and would serve the actual mentoring better. Maybe a mailing list isnt't the ideal tool? ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Core Mentorship program

2011-03-25 Thread Jesse Noller
On Mar 25, 2011, at 8:14 PM, Laura Creighton l...@openend.se wrote: In a message of Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:14:02 -0400, Jesse Noller writes: Ben, In principle I agree with you - I would like open archives for the specific reasons you cite, but I value the ability for people who may not be

Re: [Python-Dev] Mentorship list

2011-03-25 Thread Jesse Noller
On Mar 25, 2011, at 8:44 PM, Tommy tommywol...@gmail.com wrote: I was kinda hoping that a private list would have much less noise, and would serve the actual mentoring better. Maybe a mailing list isnt't the ideal tool? That is a hope I would like to see realized. I don't think we will be

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Core Mentorship program

2011-03-25 Thread Glenn Linderman
On 3/25/2011 5:44 PM, Laura Creighton wrote: The other side of the proposed forum is people who want to teach such people. Many of them (and no doubt many of the learners) don't read python-list due to its high volume. Indeed. I see 76000+ unread messages on Python-list since I subscribed

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Core Mentorship program

2011-03-25 Thread Glenn Linderman
So... start two mentoring groups, one open, one closed, and see which one survives. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe:

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Core Mentorship program

2011-03-25 Thread Jesse Noller
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Glenn Linderman v+pyt...@g.nevcal.com wrote: So... start two mentoring groups, one open, one closed, and see which one survives. I'd rather not. I'd rather walk away from the idea entirely. In fact, this entire thread is quickly becoming an example of why people

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Core Mentorship program

2011-03-25 Thread Benjamin Peterson
2011/3/25 Glenn Linderman v+pyt...@g.nevcal.com: So... start two mentoring groups, one open, one closed, and see which one survives. This is all tangential to the actual point of this discussion: To help people get involved! It's not a social experiment about mailing lists. In fact, I think

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Core Mentorship program

2011-03-25 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 7:55 AM, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: One of the great things about a discussion forum open view for the public is that, when a topic comes up again in a *different* forum, I can easily point anyone to the existing discussion without requiring that they

Re: [Python-Dev] Let's get PEP 380 into Python 3.3

2011-03-25 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 6:25 AM, rndblnch rndbl...@gmail.com wrote: The raw path is visible there: https://bitbucket.org/rndblnch/cpython-pep380/src/tip/pep380 and I have documented how to use it on the wiki: https://bitbucket.org/rndblnch/cpython-pep380/wiki/ I will stop spamming python-dev

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Core Mentorship program

2011-03-25 Thread Ethan Furman
On 3/25/2011 8:23 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 7:55 AM, Ben Finneyben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: One of the great things about a discussion forum open view for the public is that, when a topic comes up again in a *different* forum, I can easily point anyone to the

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Core Mentorship program

2011-03-25 Thread Ethan Furman
On 3/25/2011 2:55 PM, Ben Finney wrote: Guido van Rossumgu...@python.org writes: On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Ben Finneyben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Surely a forum specifically for mentorship will be more useful if outsiders can be directed to existing discussions, without needing

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Core Mentorship program

2011-03-25 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us wrote: I disagree.  The goal of mentorship is to help someone learn -- a subtle, yet distinct, difference.  I think a closed list will suit that purpose better. Keep in mind also that the list is *closed*, not *locked* --